Exhibit 7-5 Random Samples of Size 17 Are Taken from a Population

question 20

Multiple Choice

Exhibit 7-5
Random samples of size 17 are taken from a population that has 200 elements, a mean of 36, and a standard deviation of 8.
-Refer to Exhibit 7-5. Which of the following best describes the form of the sampling distribution of the sample mean for this situation?

• A)Approximately normal because the sample size is small relative to the population size.
• B)Approximately normal because of the central limit theorem.
• C)exactly normal
• D)None of the alternative answers is correct.

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